Corbyn jeered after refusing to blame Moscow for spy attack

Jeremy Corbyn was jeered as he refused to lay the blame for the chemical weapons on the KremlinGetty Images

Jeremy Corbyn and his spokesman challenged Theresa May’s statement that the Russian state was responsible for the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, citing intelligence failings in the lead-up to the Iraq war to attack the government’s approach.

Mr Corbyn’s spokesman then went further, warning that British intelligence has a “problematic history” as well as raising the prospect that a different former Soviet state may have been behind the attack.

Speaking in the Commons this afternoon, the prime minister told MPs that the Salisbury incident was an “unlawful use…